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It's not just you: Twitter and TweetDeck are experiencing an outage

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What you need to know

  • Twitter is experiencing API irregularity, which is affecting all of its services.
  • Reports of problems in-browser and on TweetDeck.
  • The issue is also affecting Twitter on Android.

Twitter is experiencing irregularities with its APIs, which is affecting all of its services this morning.

The news first broke early this morning, with outages affecting Twitter and TweetDeck. Users report to experiencing problems trying to tweet, getting notifications, and sending DMs. According to Twitter's API Status website, the issue is being investigated:

Investigating - As of 2019-10-02 06:35:00 UTC, The Twitter data team is investigating a system irregularity causing lowered success rates across all APIs. We will provide an update as soon as we know more. Oct 2, 07:33 UTCMonitoring - As of 05:00:00, Oct 2 UTC - All APIs/products should be operating normally Oct 2, 05:14 UTCUpdate - The Twitter data team is investigating a system irregularity affecting all products/APIs that occurred starting on October 2 at approximately 00:50 UTC. Data may be delayed or missing at this time. We will provide an update as soon as we know more. Oct 2, 02:55 UTCInvestigating - The Twitter data team is investigating a system irregularity affecting the streaming APIs that occurred starting on October 2 at approximately 00:50 UTC. Data may be delayed this time. We will provide an update as soon as we know more. Oct 2, 01:29 UTC

It seems the issue was resolved for a time, but has now resurfaced. Below is a full list of Twitter's services and how they are affected:

Stephen Warwick
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Stephen Warwick has written about Apple for five years at iMore and previously elsewhere. He covers all of iMore's latest breaking news regarding all of Apple's products and services, both hardware and software. Stephen has interviewed industry experts in a range of fields including finance, litigation, security, and more. He also specializes in curating and reviewing audio hardware and has experience beyond journalism in sound engineering, production, and design. Before becoming a writer Stephen studied Ancient History at University and also worked at Apple for more than two years. Stephen is also a host on the iMore show, a weekly podcast recorded live that discusses the latest in breaking Apple news, as well as featuring fun trivia about all things Apple. Follow him on Twitter @stephenwarwick9